Text: Reflections on the Sonic Commons by O+A

Guides: Flip & Genevieve

Place: Lincoln Center Plaza

The "sonic commons" is our shared acoustical world. This world behaves differently from the "visual commons" (one can hear, but not see, around corners, for example), and thereby creates different forms of collective experience. In cities, the "commons" is constructed architecturally.  But architecture is a primarily visual medium, not auditory. This suggests that the sonic commons we occupy are, as likely as not, unintentional — unplanned! In our Practice, we'll seek to discover what these invisible (but audible) cities can teach us, and what possibilities they hold for alternative modes of shared life.

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